I o all language, and I o learn to use it. C any particular effort; t fall from otc le deaf c trap ten painful process. But is ep by step until distance bet stammered syllable and t in a line of Shakespeare.
At first, a neions. My ideas e; but as my knourn again and again to t, eager for furtion. Sometimes a ne some earlier experience had engraved on my brain.
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quot; is love?quot; I asked.
So ;It is ; pointing to my , time. tand anytouc.
I smelt ts in ion ;Is love tness of flowers?”
quot;No,quot; said my teacher.
Again I t. the warm sun was shining on us.
quot;Is t love?quot; I asked, pointing in tion from ;Is t love?”
It seemed to me t tiful things grow.
But Miss Sullivan sly puzzled and disappointed. I t it strange t my teac show me love.
A day or terringing beads of different sizes in symmetrical groups--takes, and Miss Sullivan ed t again and again le patience. Finally I noticed a very obvious error in tant I concentrated my attention on tried to touc;think.”
In a flas t ion of an abstract idea.
For a long time I ill--I t trying to find a meaning for quot;lovequot; in t of t suddenly ts southern splendour.
Again I asked my teac;Is t love?”
quot;Love is somet ,quot; s t time I could not ood, s;You cannot touc you feel ty earto after a day. You cannot touc you feel tness t it pours into everyt love you be to play.”
tiful trut upon my mind--I felt t tretc and ts of others.
From tion Miss Sullivan made it a practice to speak to me as so any sences into my ead of speaking t knoo express my ts sing conversation he dialogue.
tinued for several years; for t learn in a mont daily intercourse. ttle ant repetition and imitation. tion imulates s topics and calls fortaneous expression of s. tural exco teacermined to supply timulus I lacked. ting to me as far as possible, verbatim, in tion. But it ime before I ventured to take tiative, and still longer before I could find somete to say at t time.
t very difficult to acquire ties of conversation. y must be augmented in t distinguisone of t assistance, go up and do of tones t give significance to cen t one says.